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    <h1>Project Governance</h1>
    <p>
      The Prometheus project follows the <a href="/governance/">Prometheus governance</a>.
    </p>

    <h1>Community</h1>
    <p>
      Prometheus is developed in the open. Here are some of the channels we use
      to communicate and contribute:
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>IRC:</strong>
      <code>#prometheus</code> on <a href="https://libera.chat/">irc.libera.chat</a>. This channel is bridged to the Matrix room below.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Matrix:</strong>
      <a href="https://app.element.io/#/room/#prometheus:matrix.org"><code>#prometheus:matrix.org</code></a>. This room is bridged to the IRC room above.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Community-maintained Slack channel:</strong>
      <code>#prometheus</code> on CNCF <a href="https://slack.cncf.io/">Slack</a>.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>User mailing lists:</strong>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-announce">prometheus-announce</a> (<a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/prometheus-announce@googlegroups.com/">mirror</a>) – low-traffic list for announcements like new releases.</li>
        <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-users">prometheus-users</a> (<a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/prometheus-users@googlegroups.com/">mirror</a>) – for discussions around Prometheus usage and community support. Announcements are <em>not</em> generally mirrored from <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-announce">prometheus-announce</a>.</li>
      </ul>
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Discourse forum:</strong>
        Web-based discussion forum at <a href="https://discuss.prometheus.io/">discuss.prometheus.io</a> hosted by <a href="https://www.discourse.org/">Discourse</a>.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Calendar for public events:</strong>
      We have a public calendar for events, which you can use to join us.
      <p>
       If you just want to get an overview, simply use our <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=prometheus.io_bdf9qgm081nrd0fe32g3olsld0%40group.calendar.google.com">web view in your browser's time zone</a>.
      </p>
      <p>
       If you're using Google products, there's an <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?cid=prometheus.io_bdf9qgm081nrd0fe32g3olsld0@group.calendar.google.com">automagic link to add it your own Google calendar</a>.
      </p>
      <p>
       If you're using a different calendar, there's an <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/prometheus.io_bdf9qgm081nrd0fe32g3olsld0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics">.ics to add to non-Google calendars</a>.
      </p>
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Twitter:</strong>
      <a href="https://twitter.com/PrometheusIO">@PrometheusIO</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Issue tracker:</strong> Use the GitHub issue tracker
      for the various <a href="http://github.com/prometheus">Prometheus
      repositories</a> to file bugs and features request.
      If you need support, please send your questions to the
      <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-users">prometheus-users</a>
      mailing list rather than filing a GitHub issue.
    </p>

    <p>
      <em>Please do not ask individual project members for
      support. Use the channels above instead, where the whole
      community can help you and benefit from the solutions
      provided. If community support is insufficient for your
      situation, please refer to the
      <a href="/support-training">Support & Training</a> page.</em>
    </p>

    <h1>Contributing</h1>
    <p>
      We welcome community contributions! Please see the
      <code>CONTRIBUTING.md</code> file in the respective Prometheus
      repository for instructions on how to submit changes. If you are
      planning on making more elaborate or potentially controversial
      changes, please discuss them in the developers IRC channel or on
      the mailing list before sending a pull request.
    </p>
    <p>
      We host public weekly meetings focused on Prometheus development and
      contributions. It’s meant for developers and maintainers to meet and get
      unblocked, pair review, and discuss development aspects of the Prometheus
      and related official projects (e.g node_exporter, alertmanager). The
      document linked below contains all the details, including how to
      register.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>IRC:</strong>
      <code>#prometheus-dev</code> on <a href="https://libera.chat/">irc.libera.chat</a>. This channel is bridged to the Matrix room below.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Matrix:</strong>
      <a href="https://app.element.io/#/room/#prometheus-dev:matrix.org"><code>#prometheus-dev:matrix.org</code></a>. This room is bridged to the IRC channel above.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Community-maintained Slack channel:</strong>
      <code>#prometheus-dev</code> on CNCF <a href="https://slack.cncf.io/">Slack</a>.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Development mailing list:</strong>
      <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-developers">prometheus-developers</a> (<a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/prometheus-developers@googlegroups.com/">mirror</a>) – for discussions around Prometheus development.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Office Hours:</strong>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPIsOssTswA244z5SDlws5Qwzc27hQQ2IukNmkIjmPk/edit">Prometheus Contributor Office Hours</a> – public weekly meetings focused on Prometheus development and contributions.
    </p>

    <h1>Developer summits</h1>
    <p>
      Developer summits are public meetings to discuss more involved
      development topics. They currently happen monthly as an online
      meeting. (For details, check out the public events calendar
      linked in the Community section above.) The Prometheus team
      curates the agenda based on recent discussions via other
      channels. To propose a topic, please send a mail to the
      <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-developers">development mailing list</a>
      at least 24 hours prior to the summit.
    </p>
    <p>
      As of 2021, we carry a public, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11LC3wJcVk00l8w5P3oLQ-m3Y37iom6INAMEu2ZAGIIE">rolling meeting notes document</a>. You can find our historic meeting notes below.
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DaHFao0saZ3MDt9yuuxLaCQg8WGadO8s44i3cxSARcM">2017 developer summit notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-C5PycocOZEVIPrmM1hn8fBelShqtqiAmFptoG4yK70">2018 developer summit notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NQIX78nwBhfLZD3pAb0PK-uBKYqnkzjjVhOQ-kIaEGU">2019 developer summit notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VVxx9DzpJPDgOZpZ5TtSHBRPuG5Fr3Vr6EFh8XuUpgs">2019 developer summit 2 notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yuaPKLDvhJNXMF1ubsOOm5kE2_6dvCxHowBQIDs0KdU">2020 virtual developer summit 1 notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vhXKpCNY0k2cbm0g10uM2msXoMoH8CTwrg_dyqsFUKo">2020 virtual developer summit 2 notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Jbl5LC_FPLqCqU12qY8XpjVMJLCtGt-ykbyAhYXcIc">2020 virtual developer summit 3 notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_60pplXWF1R-utJtswJYFf8F9HBAJdDS5x4Lv9CgAJ8">2020 virtual developer summit 4 notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iO1QHRyABaIpc6xXB1oqu91jYL1QQibEpvQqXfQF-WA">2020 virtual developer summit 5 notes</a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10o4gkjgK46MdUHTowpUG_pyeON3Z5k0CbPBqQ211KOE">2021 virtual developer summit 1 notes</a>
    </p>

    <h1>Code of Conduct</h1>
    <p>
      To make Prometheus a welcoming and harassment-free experience for everyone, we follow the
      <a href="https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md">CNCF Code of Conduct</a>.
    </p>

    <h1>Legal Umbrella</h1>
    <p>
      Prometheus is an independent open-source project and not controlled by
      any single company. To emphasize this we joined the
      <a href="https://cncf.io/">Cloud Native Computing Foundation</a> in 2016 as the second project after <a href="https://kubernetes.io/">Kubernetes</a>.
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    <h1>Acknowledgements</h1>
    <p>
      Prometheus was started by
      <a href="http://www.matttproud.com">Matt T. Proud</a> and
      <a href="http://juliusv.com">Julius Volz</a>. The majority of its initial
      development was sponsored by <a href="https://soundcloud.com">SoundCloud</a>.
    </p>
    <p>
      We would also like to acknowledge early contributions by engineers from
      <a href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker</a> and <a href="http://www.boxever.com/">Boxever</a>.
    </p>
    <p>
      Special thanks to <a href="https://digitalocean.com/">DigitalOcean</a> for providing hosting resources.
    </p>
    <p>
      The Prometheus logo was contributed by Robin Greenwood.
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